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If they adjust their speech and their behavior, it doesn't matter anymore what they actually think but dare tell no one.


That's the exact kind of thinking used by various oppressive and totalitarian movements and governments in the past. Sooner or later, it ends in physical violence.

It's just sad that those self-proclaimed anti-oppression activists don't see they're using the very same methods for their supposed goals.


Yes, as the lies build upon lies and more and more people flock to enter the parasitic class by corruption instead of being part of the host class, the inevitable end is war or one-sided killing.

Since you cannot shine truth on a small lie without exposing bigger lies, the lies snowball into unmanageable levels, inhibiting all creativity, science and business. This happens in any corrupt people, even without any violence or even threat of violence. But the violence is inevitable in the end.


What happens is they go underground and push back that way. In the USSR the citizens would declare their fervent loyalty to communist ideology and by night they buy Adidas black market shoes for their kids.




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